Trump’s angry men: can Harris win over ‘white dudes’? | Anywhere but Washington

Why is Donald Trump’s brand of rightwing politics so appealing to white male voters? Is Kamala Harris struggling to gain their support because of misogyny, or do some men just feel unheard and lonely?
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The Guardian’s Oliver Laughland and Tom Silverstone travel to Ohio and the hometown of Republican vice-presidential candidate, JD Vance, to try and understand why gender has become one of the most critical issues in this year’s US election.

Chapters:
00:00 – Is America ready for its first female president?
01:29 – Childless cat ladies, misogyny and wokeism: masculinity in JD Vance’s hometown
04:39 – A pushback against Hillbilly Elegy: community spirit in Middletown, Ohio
07:03 – White dudes for Harris: the pushback against conservative influencers
09:10 – How Democrats are fighting Donald Trump in Ohio

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46 COMMENTS

  1. The US economy performs significantly and consistently better under democratic presidents. The figures speak for themselves. This is not a case of – Is that what you think? Is that how you feel? It's a case of, look at the numbers. They don't lie. The democrats strenghten the middle class. The republicans enrich the richest ten percent, while weakening the middle class.

  2. What a bunch of whiney bellyachers. I know what a man is and I don't see one in trump or in vance. Trump has always been corrupt and self-serving. Vance has been groomed by the uber-rich. They are both frauds.

  3. Only fragile (mostly white) men vote for trump because they see their control and influence steadily slipping away. Because deep down they feel they deserve preferential treatment for their race and gender. Many are open racists, misogynists, and hate lgbt, and the rest are closeted with this. Women voting for him just hate themselves. They cannot be trusted to be in power ever again.

  4. Isolationism from each other is not a good thing for anyone. It creates a vacuum in people's brains. Isolating ourselves creates an imagine in our own head what other people are like vs interacting with others by really talking, working and expressing ourselves directly with other people. In the end, we find we are not as different from each other as we think we are, even if the other person looks different than oneself.

  5. Oh come on. Harris's answers in interviews have been terrible and now she's having to resort to the 8 year old Hitler trope, that even most democrats are fed up with.

    If you want a female president, don't install the very worst imaginable one. Make all presidential candidates compete for the job!

  6. What is wrong with the people being interviewed? Its the same thing that is wrong about the people posting here asking what is wrong with those people.

    Assumptions and stereotyping perhaps even borderline racism. These people interviewed have different views about thing and their views need to be respected. ESPECIALLY if you want to even try and convince them to hear your side of the argument to vote anyone but Trump.

  7. The first thing that needs to happen is male bro's need to stop being accused of being right wing. Being a knucklehead doesndoesn'tt make someone an extremist or ideologically footed in one brand of politics. Being a knucklehead just means they are a knucklehead and I thought this world of acceptance is meant to embrace even the knuckleheads of the world.

  8. I'm a man, and I think it's time for the dudes to step aside and bring some new vitality and common sense by another gender. Too much ego going on with the dudes and not enough common sense. I think now would be a great time to have that kind of leader. Sorry bros!!! We've had our chances. Let's give someone else a chance. This is AMERICA.

  9. I thought real men defended abused women! How come the Kat1e Johns0n filing was closed! Trump allegedly beat his ex wife.he is found that he did assault another woman and lots of accusatios about how he has tried it On
    force ably. The remarks he made about women . Real men would not stand for this!

  10. Aah. These men remind somewhat of the jocks/intellectually challenged sorts I grew up with in high school. The jocks thought their moment of “fame” in HS would carry them through life will little effort, out of a family of 5, one died homeless. Only one of them made a bit of something for himself. The intellectually challenged ones spend most of their declining years on a barstool at the local establishment complaining about their ex-wives.😂

  11. He does tell it as it is. He is a master manipulator…. He tells them what they want to hear because they have biases, prejudices and are silly believing Q annon…which is probably set up by a state or oligarch

  12. "It's an uncomfortable subject (pause) I don't know (pause)" is exactly the problem. The bubble. The denialism. They trust a billionare who does not care for them-because he's white. America is an experiment but these people don't represent our majority.

  13. Lazy argument. I voted for Hayley in the primaries. yes, a woman of color but NOT because she was a woman of color but I thought she was the best of all candidates. I voted Trump / Vance in the general election, 2 white guys but NOT because of their race or gender but because they were the better choice among the two choices.
    Stop these lazy arguments.
    Harris is a weak candidate!

  14. MAGA is bar-none the stupidest, emptiest, most vile political movement in American history. Stupid and backwards on every level.

    But at least now we know which Americans ought to be permanently wearing a helmet.

  15. Missed the jobs their grandfather had.. Hmm, not so great when you have to get federal legislation to provide for black lung disease. Just because my great grandfather built the railroad in the Pacific Northwest doesn't mean that is the only future for his posterity. This type of thinking means that they are not allowed to think outside the box. But don't blame democrats, blame the change in the coal industry, they just cap the mountain and mine it that way. Not as much need to get your lantern helmet on.

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